Memory Project

Jacques Ostiguy

Published Online August 3, 2022

Last Edited August 3, 2022

This testimony is part of the Memory Project Archive

Lieutenant Colonel Ostiguy was a decorated Second World War infantry officer who remained in the Canadian Army after the war. In 1954, he was posted to the ISSC and deployed to Indochina. LCol Ostiguy was one of the senior Canadian officers in the Canadian Delegation (CANDEL), and discusses his time in Phnom Penh and the tasks of the observer teams and his daily work.
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Après Dieppe, le général qui commandait ma division... m’avait demandé de faire l’inspection pendant qu’il faisait l’inspection des trois unités qui n’étaient pas allées à Dieppe ainsi que les autres… à la suite de ça, le général m’a demandé de commander une école de tireurs d’élite, the Snipers.

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